Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmermann) is a progressive house producer based in Toronto. He’s won several awards and is quite a known personality within these circles. I’m not an avid listener of that kind of music, but I have to say that I enjoyed the show. The crowd was fantastic and the atmosphere was there too.
When I was given the assignment for this show I was a bit reluctant, I was wondering how one could produce a certain number of photographs from an artist who will remain static behind his/her turntables. As you can see on the pictures Deadmou5 is an artist who always performs with a “mask” which doesn’t make the whole concept easier. But as we photographers like challenges so I accepted.
An a challenge it turned out to be. To start with I had to wait 2 hours before Deadmau5 started his gig, then there was no pit access for this one. I was shown a spot where I could take my pictures from, a small 50cm high box from the sides. When the performance started there was another surprise. The DJ’s desk was hiding 30% of his face/mask from where I was allowed to photograph, which forced me to leave my “box” and go into the crowd to get a least a couple of descent shots. The lighting setup was fantastic to watch but it was the worst case scenario to photograph: Strobes, a lot of back-light and no front light to speak off.
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